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EPPC Briefly: A False Portrait of Norman Rockwell

May 8, 2014

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Painting a False PortraitEPPC Senior Fellow (and former head of the National Endowment for the Humanities) Bruce Cole excoriates former New York Times columnist Deborah Solomon’s new biography of Norman Rockwell, in which Solomon indulges her “overwrought sexual fantasies” and “neglects the most important thing about Rockwell: his art.”

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